Creative Portrait | Lesson 3

Creative Portrait

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Bokeh in the foreground Shadow play / Gobos High key Low key Silhouettes Unusual source of light Portraits by candlelight Lightpainting

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"Will somebody Let me see the light within the dark trees' shadows and

What's happenin'? Lookin' through the glass find the wrong within the past knowin'

We are the youth" Imagine Dragons ? Natural

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Here is a third lesson and many more creative techniques of photographing portraits come with it. We will be experimenting with light, because, as we all know, there would be no photographs without light! But, where there is light, there is also a shadow and "the darkest place is under the candlestick", so we will play hide and seek, we will be looking for and finding light and shadow and using both for our unique shots! And don't be afraid to use also techniques from the previous lessons while you play with light... and have fun! ;-)

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We already talked about bokeh in the first lesson, but we mainly talked about circles and lights in the background... how about creating bokeh in the foreground? Many people seem to forget that a low depth of field ? blurring doesn't apply only to the background, but can affect our foreground just as well. But we all know that, because we have learnt already how to create foggy effect in photographs using "camera obscura" and "shooting through" technique in the second lesson... but to have lights (and bokeh!) in foreground? Yes, that's exactly what we want to try right now!

You can use any lights you want ? small, bigger, different shapes and even colorful ? the choice is endless, especially before, or even better, just after Christmas (as they are in sale, you can buy them really for cheap and I have a whole collection of them :-)). The ones that you can plug in are fine, but the battery powered ones are even better ? you can take them anywhere you need! And then you just need to play with them in front of your lens, or it can be your model doing that and so on. Extra tip ? if your model will be wearing glasses, you can get some fantastic light reflections too. The possibilities are endless!

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